Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having as many planes as required for complete symmetry in a given crystal system.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In mineralogy, having all the similar edges or angles similarly replaced, as a crystal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Crystallog.) Having all the planes required by complete symmetry, -- in opposition to
hemihedral .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of a crystal Having as many plane
faces as needed for the highest degree ofsymmetry in its system
Etymologies
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From holo- + Ancient Greek ἕδρα (hedra, "seat").
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